USPS follies, YET AGAIN!

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Bill in Oregon
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USPS follies, YET AGAIN!

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So CYA gets my holster to the post office in San Antonio Feb. 27, and does it then go to Dallas? NOOOOOO .. the USPS geniuses ship it to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, of course! :evil:
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Par for the course . My package from Georgia coming to Alabama went to Aurora Colorado , then Denver Colorado , then Memphis Tennessee , then somewhere in North east Georgia , then Birmingham Alabama , Then Nashville Tennessee , then finally to Huntsville Alabama where it sat for four days before making the trip to Hillsboro Alabama to be delivered that day. No wonder they are (Supposedly) on the verge of going broke. This was not an isolated incident by the way , happens with my stuff pretty regularly.
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This is beginning to be more common than mail getting delivered correctly used to be! The last few packages I've sent or had sent to me all went sideways and to either the wrong direction, or bounced around one state to several USPS facilities before they finally headed towards me. My last package was the Hubalek scope I bought from a seller in May, Tx. and it went to 3 cities in Texas, then past me to Seattle before finally landing here. A 4 day estimated time took 12 days to get here. USPS is worthless and getting worse.
They can't continue to waste fuel and time on deliveries and keep the lights on.
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Yes, I'm in the same boat, but I think what happened in my case is the local delivery carrier put my package in someone else's box and it was routed back to the main sorting center and now from the tracking it appears to be on the way back to me.
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DEI management!! 😖
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Come on Bill, everyone knows that from Texas to New Mexico the shortest route is through Taxachusetts! :lol:
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Will: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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This has to be by design, something to do with gaming their statistics probably. To what end, who knows.

It's not just USPS though, I ordered some parts from Wilson a couple weeks ago and according to the tracking UPS drove them to Illinois from Arkansas before heading to Arizona.
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A bit of insider info:
If you are going to recycle a box,
Make sure all the previous shipping labels are removed.
Ive seen packages floated back and forth for weeks, depending on which label was scanned at each stop.
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Yep, I am tracking a new Smith and Wesson 357 mountain gun, right now, shipped a week ago from Florida. It too 4 days just to make it out of the Eastern time zone. But it looks like I will finally get it tomorrow, if it can just make it the last 20 miles to my dealer.
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Safestuffer wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:20 pm A bit of insider info:
If you are going to recycle a box,
Make sure all the previous shipping labels are removed.
Ive seen packages floated back and forth for weeks, depending on which label was scanned at each stop.
Yup, you GOTTA do that!!!

No doubt that's a contributing factor.

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Did a .30-40 Krag for .303 British brass trade with a guy in Arkansas recently. His .303 British brass arrived here a day ahead of schedule! Shocking! But the .30-40 I sent was estimated to arrive there yesterday, and still just shows "in transit" with no updates as to where it is since it left here. It was supposed to get there yesterday. He also sent me a check for the difference in the trade, and it left a day earlier than the brass and still hasn't shown up. How can a box arrive faster than a letter?
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I am in Idaho! I ordered a part for my 72 Bronco from California! It is currently in Jersey City?????????? Where to next? 🤔Only the Almighty knows!
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Good luck!
I have a new rear sight for my Blackhawk on the way from Fermin Garza in Corpus Christi. I hope to gosh Dallas doesn't forward this one to Massachusetts, too. :?
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Bill in Oregon wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 6:35 pm Good luck!
I have a new rear sight for my Blackhawk on the way from Fermin Garza in Corpus Christi. I hope to gosh Dallas doesn't forward this one to Massachusetts, too. :?
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